PUBLIC LAW 95-166—NOV. 10, 1977
91 STAT. 1343
"(2) State educational agencies shall provide reports on expenditures of Federal funds, program participation, program costs, and related matters, in such form and at such times as the Secretary may prescribe. ' S T A T E COORDINATORS FOR N U T R I T I O N;
STATE
PLAN
"(h)(1) In order to be eligible for assistance under this section, State a State shall appoint a nutrition education specialist to serve as a coordinators State coordinator for school nutrition education. It shall be the respon- nutrition. sibility of the State coordinator to make an assessment of the nutrition education needs in the State as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, prepare a State plan as provided in paragraph (3) of this subsection, and coordinate programs under this Act with all other nutrition education programs provided by the State with Federal or State funds. "(2) Upon receipt of funds authorized by this section, the State coordinator shall prepare an itemized budget and assess the nutrition education needs of the State. Such assessment shall include, but not be limited to, the identification and location of all students in need of nutrition education. The assessment shall also identify State and local individual, group, and institutional resources within the State for materials, facilities, staffs, and methods related to nutrition education. " (3) Within nine months after the award of the planning and assess- State plan, ment grant, the State coordinator shall develop, prepare, and furnish the Secretary, for approval, a comprehensive plan for nutrition education within such State. The Secretary shall act on such plan not later than sixty days after it is received. Each such plan shall describe (A) Contents. the findings of the nutrition education needs assessment within the State; (B) provisions for coordinating the nutrition education program carried out with funds made available under this section with any related publicly supported programs being carried out within the State; (C) plans for soliciting the advice and recommendations of the National Advisory Council on Child Nutrition, the State educational agency, interested teachers, food nutrition professionals and paraprofessionals, school food service personnel, administrators, representatives from consumer groups, parents, and other individuals concerned with the improvement of child nutrition; (D) plans for reaching all students in the State with instruction in the nutritional value of foods and the relationships among food, nutrition, and health, for training food service personnel in the principles and skills of food service management, and for instructing teachers in sound principles of nutrition education; and (E) plans for using, on a priority basis, the resources of the land-grant colleges eligible to receive funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 (12 Stat. 503; 7 U.S.C. 301-305, 307, and 308), or the Act of August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 417, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 328), including the Tuskegee Institute. To the maximum Review. extent practicable, the State's performance under such plan shall be Hearings. reviewed and evaluated by the Secretary on a regular basis, including the use of public hearings. APPROPRIATIONS
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AUTHORIZED
"(]") (1) For the fiscal years beginning October 1, 1977, and Octo- FY 1977 and ber 1, 1978, grants to the States for the conduct of nutrition education 1978. and information programs shall be based on a rate of 50 cents for each
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